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This bill claims to ‘Save Our Bacon.’ It does the opposite

theblaze.com · 3d · first reportShare

The name might sound sweet, but BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says Americans shouldn't be fooled. A federal proposal dubbed the “Save Our Bacon Act” is making its way through Congress, and Gonzales believes anyone who cares about the welfare of animals — left or right — should oppose it. “This is the one thing, the unlikely cause bringing liberals and conservatives together. This is the one thing that we can all agree on is that it turns out, no one likes seeing pigs locked in tiny cages,” Gonzales says. The Save Our Bacon Act, she explains, "would strip rights away from states, which regulate farming pigs.” “‘We’re just saving the pigs. We’re saving bacon, and we’re just protecting our family farmers.’ It’s actually not. Once you get past the cute acronym, this bill is not really about bacon at all,” she says. The bill would “restrict states from imposing certain conditions on the production of livestock products sold within their borders,” which “targets laws like California’s Propositi